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SUMMARY:How IBM creates consulting offerings: The example of Smarter Citie
 s - Guangjie REN 
DTSTART:20130426T090000Z
DTEND:20130426T094500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guangjie Ren from IBM Almaden Research Center (California\, US
 A) is going to introduce his research project about Smarter City developme
 nt and his experiences in IBM Research Centre.  Guangjie used to be an IfM
  PhD student involved in the pioneering research work of IfM manufacturing
  servicetisation. After graduation from Cambridge\, he has been working in
 \nIBM Almaden Research Centre. In his talk\, he is going to introduce the 
 follow information:\n\n"There is an abundance of research on how companies
  create hardware and software\, but much less is known about the creation 
 of new services\, in particular consulting services.  In this talk\, I wil
 l share my own\nexperience of developing a consulting offering in IBM.  I 
 will use Smarter Cities as an example to show the essential ingredients th
 at are necessary for an idea to be a success in the marketplace and discus
 s the common challenges in service innovation."\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, IfM\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge CB3 0F
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